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Court Rules Against Photographers in Copyright Suit

Posted by michael on from the picture-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Photo District News Online reports a Federal District Court in NY says that republishing Magazine content on a CD is the same as republishing the magazine itself. Photographers claim they should recieve additional compensation for images published on the CD that were published in the orginal magazine articles. IANAL but there is some additional interesting case history in the article as well."

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  1. This is GREAT news! by JasonBigham · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now you don't have to re-purchase CD's/MP3's for all those 8-Tracks, cassettes, records, and scratched CD's you have purchased over the years. Oh wait, that's not what I've been told by my good friend the RIAA. ...rolls eyes...